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Personal blog · blog.apievangelist.comprogrammingwebbusiness

API Evangelist is a personal blog at blog.apievangelist.com about programming, web and business. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 245 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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245mentions?
10HN people?
2011–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 226 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Only one commenter links a post by Kin Lane on API ecosystems and business models, presented as his take on the topic. The comment gives no judgment of the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Studying the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010.

What Hacker News says?

  1. njyx · 2012-07-13
    See Kin Lane's take here: http://blog.apievangelist.com/2012/07/12/dont-forget-about-t...

    Comment linking /2012/07/12/dont-forget-about-the-api-pioneers-when-you-think-apis-wont-work/

    on “Taking the long view on API ecosystems - It's the Business Model Stupid”
  2. mcrider · 2012-06-01

    Submitted Barack Obama Directs All Federal Agencies to Have an API as a story · 298 points

    HN discussion
  3. apievangelist · 2011-10-19

    Submitted Considerations When Planning Endpoints for your RESTful API as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  4. apievangelist · 2011-12-31

    Submitted Government Opened Data via APIs in 2011 as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  5. apievangelist · 2011-09-11

    Submitted The Need for More Transit APIs as a story · 27 points

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  6. apievangelist · 2011-05-28

    Submitted You Think There Are a Lot of APIs Now? Wait Until Everythng Has An API as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  7. apievangelist · 2011-08-06

    Submitted API Stack – Image to CSS Conversion with Img to CSS API as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  8. apievangelist · 2011-09-06

    Submitted Deploy and Manage a RESTful API with CodeIngiter and 3Scale as a story · 8 points

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  9. apievangelist · 2011-04-04

    Submitted Open Building Blocks for an API as a story · 8 points

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  10. apievangelist · 2011-09-21

    Submitted Twilio Connect is OAuth for API Billing as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  11. apievangelist · 2011-09-10

    Submitted A Flood of APIs Just Waiting to Happen as a story · 7 points

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  12. apievangelist · 2011-04-02

    Submitted Integrate Github Into an API Community as a story · 7 points

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  13. apievangelist · 2012-01-12

    Submitted The Secret to Amazon's Success, Internal APIs as a story · 6 points

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  14. apievangelist · 2011-04-10

    Submitted Rdio Shares Revenue with API Developers as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  15. apievangelist · 2011-06-29

    Submitted Apigee Delivers API PCI-DSS Compliance as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  16. apievangelist · 2011-05-29

    Submitted Qwerly API Review as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  17. apievangelist · 2011-05-27

    Submitted Google API House Cleaning as a story · 5 points

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  18. anonfunction · 2013-03-23

    Submitted Google Launches Real Time API and JavaScript Library as a story · 4 points

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  19. apievangelist · 2011-10-25

    Submitted How Do I Convince My Managers of the Importance of Having Internal APIs? as a story · 4 points

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  20. apievangelist · 2011-10-09

    Submitted Unlocking Government Data with Socrata as a story · 4 points

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  21. apievangelist · 2011-04-09

    Submitted RESTful Business Architecture as a story · 4 points

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  22. apievangelist · 2011-04-09

    Submitted APIs Are Not Just for Developers as a story · 4 points

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  23. apievangelist · 2011-03-08

    Submitted Google API Explorer as a story · 4 points

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  24. apievangelist · 2011-02-22

    Submitted Twilio Anything Goes SXSW Developer Contest as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  25. apievangelist · 2012-06-11

    Submitted Where Is The Open Source API Platform? as a story · 3 points

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  26. apievangelist · 2012-01-10

    Submitted Definition of Hack as a story · 3 points

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  27. apievangelist · 2011-10-25

    Submitted A Walk Through Data.gov with Some Thoughts on Whats Next as a story · 3 points

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  28. apievangelist · 2011-10-03

    Submitted Learning Management System (LMS) APIs as a story · 3 points

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  29. apievangelist · 2011-09-14

    Submitted Can You Build an API Using Scraped Data? as a story · 3 points

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  30. apievangelist · 2011-09-13

    Submitted Unified Data APIs for Geo, Weather and Beyond as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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